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Internet Security
Wednesday October 8, 2008
ZDNet.com.au edit team
  		Munir Renai Alex Suzanne Liam Brian

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ASIC hires IT counter-surveillance squad <?= $story_info[TITLE] ?>
Financial markets regulator, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), has started looking for an external firm to conduct counter-surveillance activities across its information and communications technology systems.
Tags: asic, security, bug sweeper, counter surveillance, telecommunications, surveillance
King Kaspersky comes down under <?= $story_info[TITLE] ?>
Cybercrime fighter and antivirus king Eugene Kaspersky today announced he will visit Sydney in October to launch Kaspersky Lab's Australian office.
Tags: kaspersky, eugene kaspersky, antivirus, email security, blacklisting, malware, whitelisting, lab
Oyster security "fundamentally broken" <?= $story_info[TITLE] ?>
Details of vulnerabilities in the chipset used in London's Oyster travel smartcard have been released by Dutch researchers, who have said the smartcard's security was "fundamentally broken".
Tags: hacking, london, oyster card, security, smartcard, transport, jacob, classic
TCP flaw threatens Web servers <?= $story_info[TITLE] ?>
Two researchers in Sweden have found multiple flaws in the TCP stack that could lead to massive denial-of-service attacks if exploited. At present there is no workaround and there are no patches available.
Tags: flaw, internet, web, security, tcp, denial of service, dos, lee
Dutch researcher claims e-passport hack <?= $story_info[TITLE] ?>
A Dutch researcher has published code that purports to emulate and clone e-passports, and has released a video to prove it works.
Tags: airport, e-passport, hack, security, smartcard, passport
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You can't beat the price. For a good, basic internet security suite, we recommend Trend Micro Internet Security 2009.
Tags: security, trend micro, internet, 2009, pc-cillin, antivirus, firewall, parental control

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I don't have a problem with [SmartGate] rejecting people - maybe they need rejecting! - Posted by Anonymous on Custom to finally deliver SmartGate
Selective facts to make comparisons AGAIN!!!
Baltimore is 238.5 square kilometers with a population of 637,455 or a density of 3,039 people per square km. How can this be compared to the Opel bid?

 - Posted by Anonymous on US shows what OPEL could have been
Live@edu WILL be scalable
How can an email solution that is hosted in an internet cloud not scale up? - Posted by Anonymous on UQ inks massive hosted Exchange deal

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